Rock switch??

[Swimzebras]

I have a few small pieces of Very porous rock that I had in my old ten gal. freshwater. I'm wondering what I need to do to it so that I can put it safely into my sw tank? Bleach? Boil? Both? It's completely covered in freshwater algae.....?

 

[Just.A.Bit.Salty]

I would do a Google search on "cooking the rock" Heard it is better than boiling but I lost the article I had on it earlier.

 

[Swimzebras]

Ok.....bleach a no-no?

 

[SAAVE853]

No bleach!

 

[Swimzebras]

Ok.... But the whole cooking thing looks like what you do with old lr? Mines dry with fw algae... Should I just boil it?

 

[Just.A.Bit.Salty]

I would go ahead and just boil it if you want to be safe. It will turn it into just plain old base rock which is fine. The only bad thing I ever really heard on boiling is that it could break the rock but I have boiled rock before and it never broke on me.

 

[Turbosnail]

What do you think about putting it in a bucket of saltwater with a power head and heater? The freshwater algae will decompose, and you could cycle the bucket like a new tank, when you are done it will be live rock again.

This would prevent any Possible damage to the rock from heating it.

 

[Swimzebras]

Oh! I didn't think of it that way and now it makes a lot more sense to me! Thanks for explaining it!